{"id":137211,"date":"2025-09-12T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137211\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:58:12","slug":"nfl-green-bay-packers-beat-washington-commanders-27-18-to-maintain-winning-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137211\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: Green Bay Packers beat Washington Commanders 27-18 to maintain winning start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having missed pre-season games at Dallas because of his contract holdout with the Cowboys, Parsons&#8217; game time was again limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After playing in 45% of the Packers&#8217; defensive snaps against the Lions, his workload was increased to 67% and he registered half a sack on Commanders quarterback Daniels, who found Deebo Samuel for a late consolation score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first time since 1995, Green Bay have given up fewer than 250 yards in each of their first two games of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We made them earn everything,&#8221; said defensive end Parsons. &#8220;J-Love, I think you give us 20 points, we should be able to win the game. It&#8217;s all about getting stops and getting the ball back to the offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As you saw with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c5y8mz7ylppo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore and Buffalo [on Sunday],<\/a> your quarterback can have a near perfect game but still lose because guess what, the defence gave up, what, 40 points? So, defence wins championships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parsons hopes for more game time away to Cleveland next week before facing his former team Dallas in week four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully, they just let me off,&#8221; said the 26-year-old. &#8220;They can&#8217;t hold a dog back forever, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having missed pre-season games at Dallas because of his contract holdout with the Cowboys, Parsons&#8217; game time was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-137211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}